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Delta Air Lines said Thursday it will work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a study examining the environmental impact of airplane contrails. The focus of the study is how to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s what you should know about contrails, according to an aviation meteorologist. pic4you/Getty Images If you’ve ever looked up ...

The aviation sector’s burning of fossil fuels isn’t the only way it contributes to climate change: Contrails, the white clouds that trail behind airplanes, are known by researchers to trap heat from ...

Delta is collaborating with MIT on a quest to prevent persistent contrails, which are roughly 10% of all contrails and create long-standing clouds that trap heat and warm the earth. If successful, ...

Eliminating persistent warming contrails would effectively reduce the net contribution of flights to global warming to zero, according to a new report from the UK’s Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS).

Contrails form when soot and water vapor emissions from jets mix with humid, cold air. Photo Credit: TinaSova20/Shutterstock A cross-section of airlines, academic institutions and technology partners ...

American Airlines published the first findings in a study by Google Research and Breakthrough Energy on contrail avoidance to help understand how to reduce air travel’s environmental impact this week.

Contrails form when soot and water vapor emissions from jets mix with humid, cold air. Photo Credit: TinaSova20/Shutterstock Delta has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study ...

Marc Shapiro is the Director of the Breakthrough Energy Contrails team, one of American’s partners on contrail avoidance. Below, he answers our questions on the science behind contrail avoidance ...

The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene a committee to develop a national research agenda to understand better, quantify, and support the development of technical and ...

Delta Air Lines said Thursday it will work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a study examining the environmental impact of airplane contrails. The focus of the study is how to ...